About This Project

This project explores electricity trends across the United States and in three specific states — California, Texas, and Virginia. Electricity data plays a critical role in understanding how energy policy, infrastructure investments, and consumer behavior affect price, consumption, carbon emissions, and utility customers over time.

By examining retail prices, customer accounts, CO₂ emissions, and energy generation patterns, this project provides a comprehensive overview of the U.S. energy landscape and highlights both broad national patterns and unique state-level dynamics.

Why This Project Matters

Electricity is essential for modern life, powering homes, businesses, and critical infrastructure. With rising concerns about sustainability, energy equity, and grid resilience, understanding how electricity systems evolve is more important than ever.

This project: - Shows how electricity prices vary by sector and by state
- Reveals changes in electricity customer accounts over time
- Highlights state-level trends in CO₂ emissions and energy use - Allows comparison between national and state patterns to inform policy and planning

These insights can be useful for: - Energy researchers and analysts
- Policy makers and regulators
- Students and educators studying energy systems
- Anyone interested in the dynamics of U.S. electricity markets

About the Author

Miles Brodey (or your preferred name) is an energy data analyst and student in EIA-167 (Data Visualization and Storytelling in R/Quarto). This work reflects an integration of data analysis, visualization, and storytelling to better understand long-term trends in the electricity sector.

Committed to using data for public good, Miles seeks to make complex energy data accessible and digestible through clear, interactive visuals and narratives.

How This Site Is Built

This website was created using:

Quarto — a modern publishing system for reproducible documents
R (tidyverse, ggplot2, here, dplyr, tidyr) — for data cleaning & visualization
EIA API Data — energy data sourced directly from the U.S. Energy Information Administration
A modular file structure to keep data, code, and outputs organized

The source code and data are publicly available on GitHub:
https://github.com/slicesofdata/eia-167-2025

Contact

If you have questions, feedback, or suggestions for future work, feel free to connect:

📧 Email: your_email@example.com
🐦 Twitter/X: @yourhandle
💼 LinkedIn: yourprofile
🧠 GitHub: slicesofdata/eia-167-2025

Thank you for exploring this project!